«Who is an annu de payroll pro tottus. A greeting from your loghu prus isperdiu from your world ." First comes Sardinian, then English and then Italian. Translated: «May it be a year of peace for everyone. Greetings from the most remote place in the world."
The message comes from the Concordia base, "the most remote human outpost on the globe", on the Antarctic plateau, where temperatures drop to -80°. Marco Buttu, researcher of the national research program in Antarctica (Pnra) and of the National Institute of Astrophysics (Inaf), entrusted it to social media . Born in Gavoi, he is a regular on extreme missions to discover the limits of the human being.
And in Antarctica at the beginning of 2024 he planted the flag of the 4 Moors. A very clear thought, his. Which he wanted to accompany in a video with an independence anthem: while the Sardinian flag waves, the notes of "O Sardigna Patria Nostra" (known as O Sardigna custa est s'ora) resonate among the ice: text by Angelo Caria and performance by Kenze Neke, historic group from Siniscola.
«Hoisting a flag makes me uncomfortable because it recalls the idea of possession, of territorial occupation. The flag of the four Moors, which on New Year's Day flies under the midnight sun in the most isolated and extreme place in the world, however allows me to make a general wish to all of us, and a particular one to the island I am in love with" , Buttu begins.
He continues: «I hope that the thoughts and actions of us humans are increasingly based on the ideal of "non-possession". Possessiveness is the main cause of our problems, social and individual ailments. Children, due to possessiveness, the first manifestations of the ego, can snatch toys from the hands of their classmates. Possessiveness begins in this way and then evolves as we children become adults who divide the planet by marking borders, and then commit atrocities driven by the desire for new possessions. I therefore wish all of us to raise flags no longer to occupy territories, but to identify cultures and geographical areas."
Buttu's thoughts are only for his Sardinia: «We are one, it is perfectly true, just as it is true that this world would be very boring if there were a single landscape and a single way of thinking. I therefore hope to find authentic Sardinia as I left it, with the children of Barbagia who speak Sardinian and the Supramonte still wild. I hope to see fewer bathing establishments and more free beaches in the future, a welcoming, supportive and non-conformist people. I wish Sardinia to relive a new Pratobello that frees it from military occupations and the abominable war simulations that litter it with bombs."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
